What is Habitat for Humanity of Goldsboro-Wayne?
Habitat for Humanity of Goldsboro-Wayne is an independent, Christian-based nonprofit, part of the larger affiliate network of Habitat for Humanity. This year, in 2026, as Habitat for Humanity International celebrates its 50th anniversary, Habitat Goldsboro-Wayne is excited to celebrate our 25th.
Our vision is a community and a world in which everyone has a decent place to live. Our mission is to share God's love by working with our neighbors to build homes, community and hope through affordable home ownership.
And since 2001 we have done just that throughout Wayne County, and since 2022, in Lenoir County as well, through our home construction program with more than 100 new homes completed, as well as through our critical home repair program with more than 75 repairs complete since 2018.
But what really sets Habitat apart is our partnership with our families. Not only do our families buy and help to build their homes, but they also spend much of their partnership hours preparing to become successful homeowners - financial literacy and money management, home maintenance and repairs, and more as families build better futures for themselves on new foundations of strength, stability and self-reliance through affordable home ownership.
A Christian-based nonprofit
Habitat for Humanity does not evangelize or proselytize, but we seek to share God's love through our actions and attitudes.
"For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you took care of Me; I was in prison and you visited Me.... the King will answer them, ‘I assure you: Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me." - Matthew 25:35-40
"Except the Lord build the house, the labor in vain that build it; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." - Psalm 127:1
Habitat for Humanity International
Inspired by a radical, bi-racial Christian community called Koinonia Farm and its founder, the Rev. Clarence Jordan, Millard Fuller created Habitat for Humanity as a Christian organization in 1976 in Americus, Georgia. Today, Habitat has spread across the world and is now active in more than 70 countries, impacting more than 62 million people, helping them build their futures on their own terms.
Click here to learn more about Habitat, its radical foundation and history, the role of its most famous and prolific volunteers, President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalyn Carter, and the role it is playing today in helping ensure people across the world are able to build new and better futures for themselves on their own terms.
